a winter scourge causing the death by asphyxiation of a woman in the 16th arrondissement

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It is a mortal danger that the authorities warn about every year as winter approaches, which is the cause of the death by asphyxiation of a woman, Sunday November 10, 2024, in Paris, we learn from a police source. : carbon monoxide poisoning.

Vital prognosis committed

Around 11 p.m., the police were called to intervene in an apartment building in the rue Jean-de-La-Fontainein the 16th arrondissement. On site, emergency services are already working with people who have been poisoned by this dreaded gas, because it is undetectable. It is about a couple and their two children.

Despite the care provided, the woman and man are in cardiorespiratory arrest. She doesn’t survive. He is hospitalized with a vital prognosis engaged. The two children were also transported to hospital, slightly intoxicated. As a precaution, residents on the floor are evacuated outside.

An investigation was opened, but, according to the first findings of the central laboratory of the Police headquarters, it seems that it was an auxiliary heater with a device not intended for this purpose which was the cause of this fatal poisoning.

Invisible, odorless and non-irritating, carbon monoxide is, in France, the leading cause of accidental toxic death. It places Île-de-France at the top of the regions most affected by the poisoning it causes – around 150 episodes each year, indicates the ARS.

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